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*[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1057401/Joannas-dad-British-hero-called-Pun-Why-Major-Lumley-overwhelmed-shame-British-Governments-treatment-Gurkhas.html "Joanna's dad and a very British hero called Pun: Why Major Lumley would be 'overwhelmed with shame' at the British Government's treatment of the Gurkhas"] by Geoffrey Wansell 18 September 2008 dailymail.co.uk (retrieved 3 May 2014.) Includes details of the the battle for Mogaung in northern Burma in June 1944 (3rd Battalion of the 6th Gurkha Rifles). Two Victoria Crosses were awarded as a result, to Capt. Michael Allmand, who was killed and to Rifleman Tul Bahadur Pun.
===Historical books online===
*[httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/in.newernet.dli.ernet2015.72740 ''The Gurkhas''] 1928 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''The Gurkhas: their Manners, Customs and Country'' by Major W Brook Northey, late 1st KGO Gurkha Rifles and Captain C J Morris 3rd QAO Gurkha Rifles. Also available as a download from [http://pahar.in/handlewpfb-file/1928-the-gurkhas-their-manners-customs-and-country-by-northey-s-pdf/ PAHAR] Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015/126645 .22833 ''The Land Of The GurkhasOr The Himalayan Kingdom Of Nepal''] by Major W Brook Northey, late 1st KGO Gurkha Rifles. Reprint edition, first published 1937. Archive.org. The author held the post of Recruiting Officer for five years, during which he was permitted to visit the interiors of Nepal that were out of bounds to other Europeans. Also Pdf available to [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-land-of-the-gurkhas-or-himalayan-kingdom-of-nepal-by-northey-s-pdf/ download, as a pdf] from PAHAR-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Library of IndiaDataset. * ''The Gurkhas'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126645 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. A regimental history. This appears to be a reprint edition, for which no author is given, and which advises first published 1960. However the text final chapter refers to events in 1964.The most likely publication appears to be ''The Gurkhas'' by Harold James and Denis Sheil-Small published 1965, London.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1965-the-gurkhas-by-james-s-pdf/ ''The Gurkhas''] by James, 1965. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
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